[tbb-bugs] #17895 [Tor Browser]: Tor Browser Bundle installer subject to DLL hijacking

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#17895: Tor Browser Bundle installer subject to DLL hijacking
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 Reporter:  ericlaw                              |          Owner:  tbb-
     Type:  defect                               |  team
 Priority:  High                                 |         Status:  new
Component:  Tor Browser                          |      Milestone:
 Severity:  Major                                |        Version:
 Keywords:  tbb-gitian, tbb-security,            |     Resolution:
  TorBrowserTeam201512, GeorgKoppen201512        |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by dcf):

 Replying to [comment:2 dcf]:
 > According to the blog post, we just need to update NSIS to version 2.49.
 >
 > It seems the DLL hijacking fix was actually in version 2.47 (released 08
 December 2015):

 In the longer term we want to upgrade to the NSIS 3.0 series, because it
 will enable us to use more languages in the installer: see #13469,
 especially comment:6:ticket:13469.

 But according to http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page, the current
 version 3.0b2 was released 04 August 2015, so it probably doesn't have the
 DLL hijacking fix. Eric's blog post says: "The v3 beta branch doesn’t
 appear to have the fix, yet."

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17895#comment:4>
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